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While I was writing this book, my attention was immediately caught by any news item... attributed to the year 1952.... I felt that these events brought home the reality of that far-away year and my identity as a child. In his novel Fires on the Plain, published in 1952, the Japanese author Shohei Ooka writes: 'All this may just be an illusion but all the same I cannot question the things I have experienced. Memories too belong in that category'

To be like everyone else was people's universal ambition, the ultimate dream. Those who were different were thought to be eccentric or even deranged. The dogs in our neighbourhood were all called Rover or Spot.

In this novella, based on a true story, Éric Faye recounts beautifully and poetically how the main character, a single man in his fifties, discovered a woman was using his place when he was absent...
The themes of solitude, intrusion, and meaning of life are very well explored despite the brievety of the book.

A mother grapples
Grieving, hopeful, she believes
Reincarnation

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Mon dieu! Zola does not pull his punches. Interesting to read this so close to the Rules of Attraction. The Kill is also a novel about amoral people behaving badly.

Set during the rampant speculation and corruption of the 2nd Empire, Saccard comes up from the provinces to collect his spoils by using any form of fraud or deceit. Everyone is a tool to be exploited him, including his wife and son.

I think that book would be very useful for teens and people with disorders

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I‘m in 19th century 2nd Empire Paris where Haussmann and Napoleon III are transforming the city into the wide boulevards and tall buildings so characteristic of Paris today. This building frenzy invites speculation and corruption. Fortunes are made and lost. Waste and decadence are encouraged and celebrated.

The current Regime has me listening to more podcasts, watching more YouTube videos than reading,much to my detriment. I was over at Book Gallery and grabbed these pretty Colette editions to go with several I already have . Book gallery has first editions, signed books , also a great selection of general used titles affordable to all readers !